THE CONGRESS: Makings of the 73rd

No Senator from Kentucky in the last 30 years has succeeded himself in
office. Last month Democrats renominated Senator Alben Barkley for a
second term. Last week Kentucky Republicans, greatly heartened by a
jinx that favored their candidate, assembled at Louisville, picked
Representative Maurice Hudson Thatcher as their senatorial nominee.
Onetime Governor Sampson, acclaiming Nominee Thatcher as an
"everlasting Dry,'' key-noted thus: "We'll replace this
wobbly, uncertain, barking Barkley who a few years ago was taking the
Anti-Saloon League's money to make speeches and turned Wet overnight
when the Vice-Presidency was...